On 01/11/2023 8:35 a.m., Tomas Kalibera wrote:
On 11/1/23 12:15, Alberto Garre wrote:
Dear community,
I feel dismay for having to write this email, but the issue must be brought
up. On the 20th of October, I received an email from CRAN warning me of an
issue with one of the packages I maintain (bioOED). The package depended on
MEIGOR, a package that was no longer available in Bioconductor. I was given
until 2023-11-03 to fix the issue.
I contacted the MEIGOR maintainers and they told me they were migrating to
CRAN. Yesterday, they contacted me again, telling me they needed more time
for the migration. Hence, I responded to the email I received from CRAN,
asking for an extension of the previous deadline (2023-11-03).
To my surprise, it is not just that the extension was not granted, but the
package has been removed from CRAN today (2023-11-01). Two days before the
deadline (2023-11-03): https://cran.r-project.org/package=bioOED
Then, I checked my inbox and I saw an email from one of the CRAN
maintainers, showing that the package was removed because he had felt
offended by my email. I copy-paste the email below.
I don't think this is true. The reason is that your package depends on
an unavailable package, so cannot be installed. See
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bioOED/index.html where the
reason is publicly stated.
If I were you I'd simply wait once MEIGOR is on CRAN and then publish
the archived package again.
I agree with that interpretation. A possibly faster alternative would
be to remove the dependence on MEIGOR, and resubmit once that is done
and the package is working again.
Duncan Murdoch
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